httpwebwitch - 12:56 pm on Mar 9, 2011 (gmt 0)

Who is going to comply with this? Cookies are part of how the web works, they're built in to legacy software. Outlawing cookies is like... outlawing ceramic tiles.

It would be much much much easier to build the "ask for permission" logic into browsers themselves. Then people who care about this could choose to use a Euro browser, which bugs them with a popup whenever they visit a new site that uses cookies.